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NEW ARRIVALS
March 2010


 

LIRA, live in concert, a celebration, , , .

  R175
 
 

Bank (A.) ed. KRONOS 31, journal of Cape history, November 2005, 288 pp., maps, illus., paperback , Cape Town, 2005.

  R250
  Kronos is a journal published annually by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities at the University of the Western Cape.

Contributions to this volume include "History and Film: a roundtable discussion of 'Proteus'" edited by Susan Newton-King,
"The Private Performance of Events: colonial period rock art from the Swartruggens" by Simon Hall and Aron Mazel,
"The Robben Island Rebellion of 1751: a study of convict experience at the Cape of Good Hope" by Paul Truter,
"Photography with a Difference: Leon Levson's Camera Studies and Photographic Exhibitions in South Africa, 1947-1950" by Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool, and
"The Onder Bokkeveld Ear Atrocity" by Nigel Penn.
 

Bank (A.) ed. KRONOS 33, journal of Cape history, November 2007, 287 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R250
  Kronos is a journal published annually by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities at the University of the Western Cape.

Contributions include "Power, Secrecy, Proximity: a short history of South African photography" by Patricia Hayes,
"Sodomy, Race and Respectability in Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, 1689-1762: the story of a family loosely defined" by Susan Newton-King,
"Gopal Naransamy: a photographer without photographs" by Stefanie Lotter,
"'Something Raw and Real': Tracey Derrick discusses her photography with Michael Godby",
"Savage-Born but New-Created: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary in Britain, 1836-1838" by Roger Levine, and
Strangers Ashore: sailor identity and social conflict in mid-18th century Cape Town" by Nigel Worden.
 

Bernstein (A.) THE CASE FOR BUSINESS IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, , 397 pp., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2010.

  R260
  "Both activist NGO leaders who attack business for not contributing enough to society and business leaders who have gotten into the habit of apologizing for not doing enough should get ready to rethink their views when they see Ann Bernstein's penetrating and timely critique. To her discerning ears, the current conversation about 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR) is a captive of the interests and points of view of wealthy people in wealthy countries largely located in the northern part of the globe. This book is a provocative antidote to the feel-good orientation of most CSR efforts. Bernstein deals with the realities and complexities of development and growth in the low income countries where it is most needed - and energes with a clear-eyed, bold, and unsentimental endorsement of the enormous value that businesses can and do contribute in the societies that operate free and competitive markets. Her perspective is fresh and candid and informed - and very much worth reading and reading again." Herman Leonard, George F.Baker Professor of Public Management at the Kennedy School and Eliot I.Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

"Ann Bernstein has written the definitive answer to Naomi Klein's hugely influential and hugely overrated 'No Logo'. Drawing on her deep knowledge of the relevant literature and her personal experience of South Africa, the author argues that the great contribution business can make to development is to do what modern business alone can do on a sufficiently large scale to make a dent in entrenched poverty: create wealth. It is not by acting in accordance with the muddled agendas of well-intentioned proponents of 'corporate responsibility' that business makes a positive difference. It is by being productive and profitable. This book not only offers a new agenda for the role of business in development, but is also a call to arms. Business leaders should take from it the intellectual confidence they need to defend the irreplaceable role of business, qua business." Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Ann Bernstein is the founding director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) in Johannesburg.
 

Davis (T.) dir. BIGGER THAN BARBIE, , 52 minutes, DVD, , 2006.

  R295
  A documentary on the beading project, Monkeybiz, in which a small group of women from the townships around Cape Town make beaded dolls in an attempt to overcome poverty and HIV/AIDS.
Includes interviews with Monkeybiz founder Barbara Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Annie Lennox, Donna Karan and director Tina Davis.
 

Mattera (T.) dir. MAX AND MONA, , 100 minutes, DVD, , 2005.

  R45
  A comedy about a young man with an unusual talent for crying at funerals. He leaves his rural village to travel to Johannesburg, where he hopes to become a "white doctor".

This film won Best Screenplay at the Sithengi CT World Film Festival 2004 and Best New Film at Fespaco 2005.
 

Miller (P.) comp. REWIND, a cantata for voice tape and testimony, 65 minutes, CD, , 2008.

  R120
  Philip Miller composed this cantata to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In this composition he integrates extracts of recorded testimony from TRC hearings as part of the music and as libretto.
 

Raeburn (M.) dir. TRIOMF, , 118 minutes, DVD, , 2008.

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  A feature film adapted from the award-winning novel "Triomf" by Marlene van Niekerk. Winner of Best South African Film at the 2008 Durban International Film Festival.

"This powerful picture must surely be seen as a triumph for South African filmmaking." The Mail & Guardian
 

Richmond (S.) & Ranger (H.) CAPE TOWN, city guide, 260 pp., maps, colour illus., paperback, Footscray, etc., (1996) 2009.

  R225
  Lonely Planet's guide to Cape Town and surroundings.

"Clarkes stocks the best range of books on South Africa and the continent, and has a great secondhand section." p.123
 

Ross (L.) dir. THE SILVER FEZ, a film in Cape Town's unique Malay choir culture, 87 minutes, DVD, , 2009.

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  A documentary that follows the struggle between two all-male Malay choirs from the Cape Flats, the Continentals and the Starlights, as they compete with each other in the annual competition for The Silver Fez trophy.

Script by Rian Malan.

This film won Best Documentary at both the 2009 Durban International Film Festival and the 2009 Tri Continental Film Festival.
 

STEPS International WHY DEMOCRACY?, a global documentary project, 11 hours 42 minutes, 11 x DVD, , 2007.

  R795
  This series contains thirteen short films and ten 52 minute documentaries from Bolivia, China, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA. The commissioned films were selected from over four hundred submissions on the strength of their engagement with questions around the meaning and value democracy.
The ten documentaries are:
Bloody Cartoons directed by Karsten Kjaer (Denmark)
The Kawasaki Campaign! directed by Kazuhiro Soda (Japan)
Dinner with the President directed by Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sahananthan (Pakistan)
Egypt: We Are Watching You directed by Jehane Nourjaim and Sherief Elkatsha (Egypt)
For God, Tsar and the Fatherland directed by Nino Kirtadze (Russia)
In Search of Gandhi directed by Lalit Vachani (India)
Iron Ladies of Liberia directed by Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge (Liberia)
Looking for the Revolution directed by Rodrigo Vazquez (China)
Taxi to the Dark Side directed by Alex Gibney (USA). This film won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2008.

Also includes the short film, "Don't Shoot" directed by Lucilla Blankenberg, on Afrikaans newsreader Riaan Cruywagen, the longest serving newsreader in the world. Riaan has read the news on South African television since 1976, and through South Africa's transition to democracy.
 

Woodard (A.) dir. NELSON MANDELA'S FAVORITE AFRICAN FOLKTALES, , 180 minutes, 3 x CD, , 2009.

  R200
  The print version of these tales was originally published in South Africa in 2002 under the title "Madiba Magic: Nelson Mandela's favourite stories for children".

Performed by a group of actors that include Matt Damon, Woopi Goldberg, Samuel J.Jackson, Helen Mirren, Sophie Okonedo, Alan Rickman and Charlize Theron. Music by Johnny Clegg and Vusi Mahlasela.

Includes a message from Desmond Tutu.